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[Letter] 1977 Novembro 21, Rio de Janeiro [to] Oscar Ferrando, Secretario de Taller, Club de Grabado de Montevideo
1977After Oscar Ferrando, the secretary of the Club de Grabado de Montevideo (CGM), visited the Escola de Artes Visuais do Rio de Janeiro, Rubens Gerchman, the director of that school in Rio, expressed his interest in organizing a number of exchanges [...]ICAA Record ID: 1193516 -
Gerchman, o artista que testemunha e se faz presente
1967The visual artist Rubens Gerchman writes his own autobiographical profile, including details about his most recent work. He mentions the early challenges he faced, when his work was not understood and was sometimes considered to be unfinished [...]ICAA Record ID: 1111086 -
Rubens Gerchman
1978Book from the ABC collection (Arte Brasiliera Contemporânea), edited by FUNARTE (Fundação Nacional das Artes). The volume is dedicated to Rubens Gerchman, and it presents his work alongside a poem by Armando Freitas Filho, using passages that [...]ICAA Record ID: 1111072 -
Uma arte brasileiro/latino-americana
1973While living in New York, Rubens Gerchman announced that he would no longer paint, and began producing objects instead. Nonetheless drawing continued to be his starting point. Throughout his text, he offers observations on the arts scene of the city [...]ICAA Record ID: 1111052 -
[Letter] 1968 Dec. 30 [to] Walter Zanini
1968While in the United States on a travel scholarship, the artist Rubens Gerchman wrote to Walter Zanini—who at the time was the director of the MAC-USP (Museu de Arte Contemporânea da Universidade de São Paulo)—to tell him that he was in New York [...]ICAA Record ID: 1111051 -
[Este trabalho é]
1973This poetic text by the artist Rubens Gerchman is based on the opposition of certain words. Influenced by concrete poetry, this text is similar to works Gerchman produced at the time when the connection between word and image, and word and object, [...]ICAA Record ID: 1110626 -
A velha arte agora
1976The discussion of the art system in Brazil in the text “A velha arte agora” [Old Art, Today] is clearly influenced by the curatorial work of Brazilian art critic Roberto Pontual. The statement revolves around the following topics: the ideology of [...]ICAA Record ID: 1110593 -
[A idéia da G-4]
1978The artist Rubens Gerchman discusses Pare, the exhibition he jointly presented with Roberto Magalhães, Antonio Dias, Carlos Vergara, and Pedro Escosteguy at the G-4 gallery in Rio de Janeiro in April 1966. Gerchman explains that the exhibition [...]ICAA Record ID: 1110583 -
"Malasartes" vai nascer, debatendo a situação do artista brasileiro
1975Carlos Zílio, Carlos Vergara, Rubens Gerchman, and Waltercio Caldas, cofounders of Malasartes magazine, co-wrote this article in which they discuss the magazine’s genesis and the goals it set out to accomplish as a monitor of Brazilian art in the [...]ICAA Record ID: 1110556 -
Declaração Poética para "Opinião 66"
1966This document is the catalogue for the exhibition Opinião 66, organized by Cérés Franco. It includes brief statements by participating artists, among them Lygia Clark who proposes “the precarious” as an existential concept. Hélio Oiticica [...]ICAA Record ID: 1110375 -
Declaração de princípios básicos da vanguarda
1967This manifesto—whose proponents were headed by the visual artist Antonio Dias—is essentially a statement of the principles that were adopted by a group of Brazilian avant-garde artists; these principles were inspired by the spirit of the 1960s [...]ICAA Record ID: 1110371
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